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Chancellor pushes plan for tuition hike By Rory Linnane THE DAILY CARDINAL
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Leia Ferrari, founder of the Wisconsin Coalition for Domestic Partner Benefits, helps Anthony Morgan find his representative during the Day of Action at Library Mall Wednesday.
Day of Action seeks to protect staff By Beth Pickhard THE DAILY CARDINAL
The Wisconsin Coalition for Domestic Partner Benefits held a Day of Action Wednesday at Library Mall to encourage students to actively support partner benefits for Wisconsin employees. Claire Lempke, Associated Students of Madison media specialist, said ASM promoted the event to support the ASM program called Quality and Accessible Education. “One of ASM’s goals is to make education better on campus in whatever way we can possible,” she said. According to Lempke, UWMadison professors and staff members are considered state employ-
Feb. unemployment rises in 71 counties According to unemployment data released by the Department of Workforce Development Wednesday, 71 of Wisconsin’s 72 counties saw increases in unemployment between January and February. Dane County still has the lowest unemployment rate, which rose from 4.9 percent in January to 5.5 in February. Madison’s unemployment rate increased from 4.4 to 5 percent, but is still the lowest in Wisconsin cities. The city of Beloit has the state’s highest unemployment rate of 16.9 percent, which has more than doubled from last year’s rate of 8.1. In terms of Metropolitan Statistical Areas, the Janesville MSA has the highest rate of 13 percent. DWD Secretary Roberta Gassman said in a statement she hopes funds from the federal stimulus bill will help reverse this trend of rising unemployment. Wisconsin’s unemployment rate, which has remained below the national average, rose to 8.8 percent in February and is closing in on the national rate of 8.9 percent.
ees. She said the lack of domestic partner benefits is detrimental to UW-Madison because it is harder to attract and keep employees without the benefits being provided. “We’ve been noticing a huge trend of professors leaving to go to places where they can receive those benefits,” she said. Day of Action Coordinator Leia Ferrari said many professors leave UW-Madison because Wisconsin state employees are at a disadvantage compared to employees from other schools. “Wisconsin is the only Big Ten school that doesn’t have domestic partner benefits,” she said. Event coordinators said they hoped the event will generate support for the
benefits to be included in the 2009 state budget. Students made phone calls and emails throughout the day to voice their opinions to Wisconsin representatives. UW-Madison student Zechariah Ruffin said she participated in the event because she felt domestic partner benefits are a part of a serious equality issue that needs to be solved. ASM Academic Affairs Chair Chris Tiernan said the event was a great way to get students involved in accomplishing ASM’s overall goal to gain domestic partner benefits. “We’re losing a lot of our really great professors, so this is a way that we identified that we could change what’s going on,” he said.
UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin reiterated her new initiative for increasing tuition and financial aid to students, faculty and staff in a news conference Wednesday at Bascom Hall. If passed by the UW System Board of Regents, Martin’s Madison Initiative for Undergraduates would result in a possible $40 million increase to tuition and financial aid over the next four years. Martin said she hopes her plan will better prepare students for the current state of the economy. “This has to be addressed now, not despite the terrible economic circumstances … but because of them,” she said. She also emphasized that it is not part of the university’s response to looming budget cuts. Dean of Students Lori Berquam said the plan’s strength comes from its clear focus. “It’s very strategic and very specific, so it’s not to fill any shortfall budget-wise,” she said. If passed, the plan will allocate half its funding to undergraduate instructional support. Martin said the plan aims to increase availability and breadth
of courses, give students more opportunities to interact with faculty, enhance student services and invest in new learning strategies. The other half of funds raised for the initiative would go toward financial gift aid. In the Big Ten conference, UW-Madison currently offers the least amount of financial aid to its students. Susan Fischer, Student Financial Aid director, said many students qualify for financial aid but do not receive it. “It won’t fix it completely but it will be a tremendous step,” she said. To fund the initiative, a supplemental tuition charge would last four years at $250 per year for in-state students and $750 per year for out-of-state students. The plan calls for private donations to match every dollar in tuition increase. Martin said she sees this initiative as part of a change in the funding model for the university. “We’re moving to an era where we rely more heavily on what we can raise privately, and on those students and families who can afford it,” Martin said. Martin will hold a second forum for more feedback Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in Room 19 of Ingraham Hall.
Student veterans share experiences after returning from service By Andrea Carlson THE DAILY CARDINAL
A panel sponsored by the Undergraduate History Association Wednesday allowed UW-Madison student veterans to share their experiences with others about their transition from the service to school. Veterans Joe Dillenburg, Gerald Kapinos and Carol Warden answered questions from the audience about army, air force and navy life, and how it affected their outlooks on life. “It gives you a lot of insight into what is important,” Kapinos, who is also president of the Vets for Vets Association, said. “It helps you to learn discipline and to get along with other people.” Dillenburg emphasized the benefits of serving in the army, such as a more mature mindset. “I remember watching these 18-, 19-, 20-year-old kids that came and seeing how quickly they grew up,” he said. Warden commented on some
of the more difficult contrasts between being in the Navy and being a student. “During the Navy you have a lot of on-the-job training, but now you have research,” he said. “It’s different when you learn something and do it rather than research something and then write about it.” Another difficult aspect the veterans encountered was remembering how to be a civilian again and connecting with peers. Dillenburg in particular suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after his return to the United States, which at times made it hard for him to concentrate in class. “I was the one sitting in the front row in classes, not because I was really interested, but because I had to block out everyone else who was there,” Dillenburg said. “I was used to having my senses keyed up to what was around me, so anytime someone moved or made a noise, I would want
to look.” When asked what advice they had for incoming student veterans, Warden encouraged them to join Vets For Vets while Kapinos advised them to get involved with other stu-
dents and campus organizations. “Don’t isolate yourselves with other vets. A big part of the process is to get yourself out there and talk to people,” Kapinos said.
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A group of student veterans confessed the difficulties of returning back to school at a discussion in Humanities Wednesday.
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”
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n many weeks this column is a place of complaining, so much that a person reading sometimes might worry that I had a sickness of the feelings. But this week is different! You see, for several days now, the great conclusions of the American collegiate basketball sport have been already upon us. Oh, I am very excited. If you were standing near to me rather than reading these printed words, you would touch the bumps of geese on my arms and know my enthusiasm for the great Basketing of Balls! I have always found these games to be of much interest. Firstly, there is the fast pacing, with the many runnings about. “See! The basketballers have all run to one end,” you might say, with happiness. But soon they will come back, one of them bearing the ball for prompt basketing. It is always with the
entertainment. And if one of the basketmen successfully places the ball into the net of the enemy, that is the most exciting of all. If I am at the Bastketball House when this happens, I stand up from my seat to thank that person for basketing so successfully. Sometimes I lift my hands above my shoulders. Others do this too. Often, I see that their arms also have the goose’s bumps—how excited we are then! There are many ways of basketing in the game of balls that bears its name. Simplest is when a player close to the enemy basketnet inclines the hand and tips the ball into the ball receptacle. It looks much like laziness, but do not be deceived! This basketing can be very beautiful to behold, with the grace of the basketers in their competitive ballet. I also like very much when the player throws the ball with both hands toward the basketnet, and even more when the player throws from very far away. “Will the ball be basketed successfully?” we all wonder then. But there is no time for questions! Soon the ball will be moving towards
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Leinenkugel’s, a local but ever-expanding brewery, introduced their new Classic Amber this month to the national market, joining Sunset Wheat, Berry Weiss, Summer Shandy and Honey Weiss, their nationally marketed beers. Although the aforementioned brews don’t have directly corresponding competition—there aren’t any gigantic berry-flavored beers on the market—Classic Amber strives to
take on a national juggernaut: Sam Adams Boston Lager. Samuel Adams Brewing Co. is the largest American-owned brewery, considering both Anheuser-Busch and MillerCoors are owned by foreign corporations. Their Boston Lager is a staple in New England and is widely popular across the United States. Needless to say, Leinie’s has their work cut out for them. And in their Classic Amber, they present a
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the other basketnet, and the ballmen will follow it. Such is life. Did the visitors of the Basketball House stand up to express thanks? Maybe. My very favorite basketing is when one basketer will jump very high with his ball and place it directly in the basketring (sometimes to hang from the basketring in celebration!). The people watching the basketballings then will jump up and down and sometimes slap their hands at each other. Do not be alarmed! It is always the way with the great basketings. Such enjoyment then! The players will often get very excited too. If one basketman has touched another man where he must not, then the one he has offended will be permitted to attempt basketings free of harassment, sometimes having many scorings in doing so. And of the scorings in a bastketball match, how many? No one can say! But not more than one thousand. Last weekend was my time of maximum basketball excitement. For you see, the squadron of basketmen from our campus had overpowered the squadron of a distant university in the making of successful basketings.
Such joy at that moment! If ever we meet the students of that university, we will remind them of the shaming they suffered at the hands of our skillful basketmen. Their cheeks will darken to remember the embarrassment. But then just days later: another great shaming! But this time our basketmen suffered their own humiliation at the hands of an enemy squadron of basketballers, and so now we must forever avoid the students of another, mightier university, who will pound their chests at us to show their victory in the trials on the polished floors of wood. Such shame! Even so, I will continue to enjoy the rest of this year’s basketballings, knowing in my heart that by next year we will once again be ready to support our squadron in their runnings about and to thank them for their many successful basketings. So now let us give another cheer for our team of basketers and shout with much vigorousness: “Hooray for Campus Team! The team for us!” Hooray for e-mailings! Contact Matt at hunziker@wisc.edu.
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Chancellor begins search for provost UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin announced her decision Wednesday to search internally for the campus’ next provost. According to a statement, a committee of UW-Madison faculty and staff members is now accepting applications from current professors to fill the position. David Musolf, Faculty Academic Staff secretary, said Martin chose to search within UW-Madison to fill the position because she is new to the campus herself. “She is a new chancellor from outside the university, and it would make sense to have someone internally to serve the provost position so that both of the top leaders are not newly hired from outside of the institute,” he said.
The provost serves as the chief academic and educational officer to the chancellor and works closely with UW-Madison deans to plan future academic goals. Martin said in a statement that the chosen provost needs to have strong qualifications to fulfill the position’s duties. “The UW-Madison provost will be a strong academic leader with significant administrative experience,” she said. “He or she will need to be open and consultative, and able to make hard decisions.” Julie Underwood is currently serving as the interim provost until the new position is filled. She took the position following former provost Patrick Farrell’s resignation last fall. —Kelsey Gunderson
Madison ranked third best midsize city for quality of life in recent survey Madison was ranked as the third best midsized metropolitan area for the best quality of life by Bizjournals Wednesday. Bizjournals, a publisher of metropolitan business newspapers, conducted a study among 124 midsized cities, comparing them in 20 statistical categories using the latest U.S. Census Bureau data. The highest scores went to well-rounded places with healthy economies, light traffic, moderate costs of living, impressive housing stocks and strong educational systems. Madison ranked third in the
study, behind Provo, Utah and Boulder, CO. The study attributed Madison’s stable and upscale employment base to the presence of a major university and the state Capitol. Bizjournals also cited 40.5 percent of Madison adults 25 or older as holding bachelor’s degrees, compared with 36.1 percent of Provo adults. Provo was credited with its high number of large homes and steady population growth while Boulder was noted for its entrepreneurial spirit and high percentage of college-educated residents.
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Lawmakers address women’s issues in panel By Justin Eells THE DAILY CARDINAL
As a part of the College Democrats of Madison’s “Sexy Week,” a panel of state lawmakers advocated for improvement in women’s sexual health and reproductive rights Wednesday in Humanities. Panelists included state Reps. Donna Seidel, D-Wausau, Sandy Pasch, D-Whitefish Bay, Ann Hraychuck, D-Balsam Lake and Kelda Roys, D-Madison. The purpose of the panel was to address women’s health, which is “largely ignored in our government and our culture,” according to UW-Madison sophomore Molly Rivera, organizer of “Sexy Week,” a week planned to promote awareness of sexual issues for UW students.
The panelists answered questions about issues and legislation regarding reproductive rights, sexual abuse, sex education and health care, emphasizing the need for young people to vote and take an interest in politics. “We need your voice,” Pasch said, adding that individuals can contact their representatives and be their own lobbyists. They expressed particular concern about refusal clauses and conscience clauses, which allow doctors to refuse to provide care or to withhold information from patients in need of emergency birth control. General access to health care was identified as a primary issue in women’s health and reproductive rights. Benefits for the poor are
shrinking, Seidel said, adding that Wisconsin “stands in very good stead” to develop a plan for comprehensive universal health care, which could set an example for other states and the federal government. Regarding sexual abuse, the panel emphasized the importance of maintaining a dialogue with university police. In the event of sexual abuse, the individual must “take the responsibility upon yourself to make the call,” Hraychuck said. Seidel and Roys also emphasized the need for age-appropriate sex education for kids, adding the importance of medically accurate information. The panel expressed optimism at having a Democratic majority in the state Legislature, but said women’s issues still have a long way to go.
Woman gets a kiss then gets purse stolen, $1 missing Be careful who kisses you, it may just be the “kissing bandit.” A 69-year-old woman reported a dollar was stolen from her after an unfamiliar man hugged and kissed her on the head Sunday night. According to a police report, the incident occurred around 9:30 p.m. after the woman had just taken the Badger Bus home from church. As the woman was attempting to get into her West Dayton Street apartment, a man reportedly approached her from behind and hugged her. The woman says although she did not recognize him, the man claimed to know her and began kissing her on the top of the head. She told police the man must have obtained her purse during this encounter. According to the report, the man
later arrived at her apartment door to return the purse. The woman discovered a dollar was missing from her purse at this time. The suspect is described as a
black male, mid-to-late twenties, 135 pounds, with a thin build, wearing a black turtleneck sweater with black and gray horizontal stripes, blue jeans and tennis shoes.
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Keeping downtown Madison cooking Madison restaurants may need to adjust their business strategies to adjust to the economy Story by Andrew Lahr
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s UW-Madison freshman Paul Weigel finished up his classes for the day, one thing was on his mind: a freshly made pizza from Gino’s. He struggled through the last minutes of meteorology class and darted out the door before the bell had even finished ringing. As he entered Gino’s, Weigel couldn’t help but notice an unwelcoming change. The booths were mostly empty, and an eerie quiet filled the air. Confused and a little disheartened, he wondered why this had happened to his favorite Madison eatery. “I come here a lot, probably too much in fact,” Weigel said, exiting the restaurant dur-
What restaurants are doing right and wrong What restaurants are doing that works Finding the right balance between too many waiters and not enough Recognizing changes in customer behavior What restaurants are doing that does not work Serving too many expensive meals Having too many specialized positions
ing happy hour on that sunny Tuesday. “But every time I come here, the booths seem to be a little emptier.” Restaurants nationwide are revamping current business strategies to compensate for customers holding off on that weekly trip to the local joint. This lull in business, is forcing some Madison restaurants like Gino’s to change the way they do business such as assigning multiple jobs to certain employees and eliminating the extra cost of paying employees for individual jobs. “The recession has not just affected Gino’s, but Madison as a whole. In fact, all restaurant business here is down 40 to 50 percent,” Gino’s manager Wasie Amiri said. Gino’s, like many other Madison restaurants, has been quick to come up with ways to minimize losses in profits. One of Gino’s tactics is having their dishwashers lay down their scrub brushes and double as bussers. However unappealing the job description sounds, it is minimizing losses for Gino’s. Even Amiri has occasionally put his managerial duties aside to clean up a spill. The thriving side Other restaurants in Madison, such as the Nitty Gritty, have not had to change much at all. “The Madison area might be somewhat insulated because the university and the state government are here, and those things are two things that are never going to go out of business,” Lee Pier, manager of the Nitty Gritty, said. In fact, the Nitty Gritty has been doing quite well recently, an achievement Pier attributes to the restaurant’s service to its customers and prime location. Located within a quick walk of the Kohl Center, the Nitty Gritty receives consistent patronage as sports fans and event-bound customers stream into the restaurant looking to fill their bellies before a nightly event. “There’s a minimum level you have to have to still operate and to give good, quality customer service,” Pier said. Mary Carbine, executive director of Madison’s Central Business Improvement Center, is similarly optimistic about Madison’s restaurant business, noting several of the
city’s advantages that will continue to help restaurants thrive, even in the economic turmoil. “We have a very diverse customer base here in Madison,” Carbine said. “Even in difficult economic times people will still see eating out as an affordable luxury, and restaurants downtown here are able to see changes in customer behavior and will adapt to those changes.” According to Carbine, housing the state Legislature and the largest school in Wisconsin creates a huge advantage for the restaurants of Madison, cushioning the hard blows of the economy. Barely thriving This is not to say the economy hasn’t or won’t claim its victims in Madison. Just recently, the Crave Restaurant and Lounge, one of Madison’s more stylish lounges, shut its doors. “There’s a minimum level you have to have to still operate and to give good, quality customer service.” Lee Pier manager The Nitty Gritty
Eric Fleming, the former owner of Crave, blamed bad business and customers’ buying trends. “Instead of ordering the more expensive meals, people are coming in and getting a burger and fries,” Fleming said, conveying a problem that is not exclusive to Crave. In a time when people are making less and less money, it seems the more pricey restaurants are taking the brunt of the misfortune. This could be an explanation for the lasting success of the Nitty Gritty, a restaurant that capitalizes on good food for less money, a draw for families that aren’t willing to drop $200 on an
only slightly superior steak.
“Restaurants downtown here are able to see changes in customer behavior and will adapt to those changes.” Mary Carbine executive director Madison’s Central Business Improvement Center
Although current trends are pointing toward a decline in business for restaurants across the United States, Madison’s bubble of economic advantage seems to be keeping the majority of restaurants afloat for the time being. According to Carbine, even highend restaurants are creating their own business strategies to combat enormous losses in revenue, such as set pricing on menu items, a strategy that is keeping some customers flowing in. Despite the necessary rearrangement of high-end Madison restaurants, more affordable restaurants are successfully appealing to the public, a fact solidified in the sharp rises in fast-food stocks across the nation. “Cheap restaurants are succeeding in today’s economy,” Pier said. “In fact, McDonald’s stock has actually risen recently,” touching on the direction in which customers are going with their business when it comes to eating. According to a March 9, 2009, article from Reuters, global sales for McDonald’s rose 1.4 percent in February. This is good news for chain restaurants and fast-food joints but may leave pricier venues floundering in their own bisque. According to Carbine, we should remain optimistic about restaurants in Madison, whether cheap or expensive. “Restaurants in downtown Madison are seeing changes in customer behavior and are able to adapt to those changes.”
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he year 2009 has already proved to be a year in entertainment defined by our economic hardships. Movie theaters have begun to offer deals to entice moviegoers to show up, and escapist fare like “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” has done better in theaters than more serious films. Television has felt the ripple effect of the economy as well, with stations planning recession-themed television for their fall lineups, such as ABC’s “Canned,” a show about four friends who all get fired on the same day. Despite this seemingly barren time in entertainment, new technology is being introduced to enhance moviegoers’ enjoyment of films. There has been much hullabaloo about the new 3-D technology being introduced into theaters this year, with films such as “Coraline,” “My Bloody Valentine” and of course “Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience,” which gave preteen girls a chance to see the gyrating pelvises of Nick, Kevin and Joe seemingly thrust right at them. Now, movie techies are coming up with even more gadgets. This week marks the debut of vibrating movie chairs, coinciding with the release of “Fast and Furious,” a film strangely similar to “The Fast and the Furious” but with a decided lack of definite articles in its title. The company that produces the chairs, D-Box Technologies, says the product is “perfectly synchronized with all onscreen action, creating an unmatched realistic, immersive experience.” Although the technology is only being tested in two theaters, if it seems to test well, you can bet the seats will begin hitting high-end theaters soon. Finally, the mother of all movie enhancement technologies was announced by the electric company Phillips. They have produced a jacket that lets you feel movies, courtesy of 64 actuators located inside it. The jacket will apparently heighten excitement by “causing a shiver to go up the viewer’s spine and creating the feeling of tension in the limbs.” This, along with other tricks such as creating a pulsing beat that simulates your own pounding heartbeat, will supposedly finally bring truth to all the adjective-challenged movie critics who call films “thrill rides” or “roller coasters of emotion.” All of this advancement leads to three fundamental questions: Are these advancements feasible in an economy like this one? Will these inventions take away from the actual viewing of a movie? And are any of these inventions actually good ideas? After all, vibrating seats have been around for years and have been used sparingly in so-called “motion-picture odysseys.” Sure, they’re fun, but because they are akin to rides, not films. Installing brand-new seats would up the price of movies further, a price apparently already too high for the Pirate Bay generation. Furthermore, a jolt from a seat to indicate Vin Diesel has kicked his car up a notch or a shiver from a jacket whenever Michelle “The Walking DUI” Rodriguez gets behind the wheel seems more like overkill than enhancement. I would be remiss to say films should never take advantage of new technology. If that were the case, we’d still be sitting in nickelodeons watching 35mm black and white prints of “The Jazz Singer.” Yet things like the sensory jacket feel more like “Smell-O-Vision,” the brief invention in 1960 that pumped smells through a theater when the soundtrack cued it. The idea seems ludicrous, but then again, so does wearing a jacket that sends shivers down your spine. When it comes to these new technological advances, I smell something fishy. And I don’t need SmellO-Vision to do it. Think Kevin is being too uptight about technological innovations in the field of film? Think they should bring back Smell-O-Vision and make cooking documentaries? Enjoy the Jonas Brothers thrusting their pelvises at you? E-mail him at kevslane@gmail.com, and tell him all about it.
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he past week saw an important topic that shouldn’t have been tabled come alive again. Earlier this month the health department of the District of Columbia issued an updated report on the severity of HIV/AIDS infection within the district, finding over 3 percent of the population was infected, with many local health experts putting the number closer to 5 percent due to underreporting. The report concluded that Washington, D.C., is in the “middle of a modern HIV/AIDS epidemic.” The 3 percent figure meets the United Nations threshold of an official epidemic, or 1 percent of a whole population of a specific geographic area. In addition to this report, Pope Benedict XVI, currently in Africa on a weeklong trip, claimed that the Roman Catholic Church is at the forefront of solving the AIDS epidemic, declaring, “You can’t resolve it with the distribution
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of condoms. On the contrary, it increases the problem.” He said instead that a proper moral and responsible attitude is the best way to fight the spread of AIDS. Today, over 22 million Africans are infected with the virus, constituting two-thirds of the total world population of AIDS. In 2007, Africa accounted for 75 percent of worldwide AIDS deaths. Africa is also the largest-growing region for the Catholic faith. Oxford University professor of immunology Quentin Sattentau decried, “My reaction is that this represents a major step backwards in terms of global health education, is entirely counterproductive and is likely to lead to increases in HIV infection in Africa and elsewhere.” This summer, the Center for Disease Control issued a study showing that the United States had underreported new annual cases of HIV infection by 40 percent. Since 2002, according to U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman, D-D.C., “the CDC’s prevention budget has actually shrunk by 19 percent,” though AIDS relief in Africa amounted to tens of billions of dollars and abstinence-only programs received over $10 billion. Like so many other problems,
HIV/AIDS prevention has become a Washington ideological issue and not an issue of social justice. The findings confirm what is all too common a theme with problems that affect the citizens. In the United States, politicians take positions on issues not based on acknowledging a problem and trying to become part of the solution, but instead on ideological and partisan grounds. They do it not because they are looking out for the public’s best interest, but because they want a 10-second talking point in the next election. Here are some current U.S. AIDS statistics: 53 percent of all new infections affect gay and bisexual men, and infection rates for blacks are seven times higher than for whites and almost three times higher for Hispanics. A study published by the Black AIDS Institute and funded by the Ford Foundation stated that if U.S. African Americans were a nation unto themselves, it would rank 16th in the world in the number of people living with the HIV/AIDS virus. Their death rate is two and a half times that of whites, and as a whole, this hypothetical nation’s life expectancy would be 105th, behind citizens
living in the Gaza Strip. If that is not damning enough, the report also included data concluding that more black Americans were living with the AIDS virus than in seven of the 15 countries that received support from former president Bush’s anti-AIDS program (Botswana, Ethiopia, Guyana, Haiti, Namibia, Rwanda and Vietnam).
We still have an AIDS problem, it just happens to affect the less desirable, the less powerful, the less noticeable.
Clearly, we have an AIDS problem in the U.S. Politicians and citizens alike have behaved as if HIV/AIDS were a thing of the past and that it only affected people of those other nations. It is not. The great scare came in the late 1980s when around 130,000 people annually became infected. We became concerned. By the early 1990s, through education and prevention methods, annual infection rates lowered and sta-
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bilized to around 50,000. Since then, we deluded ourselves into thinking the problem was contained, that it wasn’t spreading. Well, it hasn’t decreased either. After the latest CDC report that “underreported” numbers, infection rates have stayed more or less constant since. Every year, 5060,000 more become infected. We still have an AIDS problem, it just happens to affect the less desirable, the less powerful, the less noticeable. We now have an AIDS epidemic in our nation’s capital. We made the commitment to help Africa and other parts of the world with their HIV/AIDS epidemic. We began distributing condoms. We began needle exchanges. We began educating on prevention. We have become part of the solution in those other nations. We need to take on the challenges that we took on before to help other nations battle this horrific virus, not because they are politically beneficial or ideological, but because they are necessary parts of the solution in the United States as well. Joseph Koss is a junior majoring in secondary education in social studies. Please send responses to opinion@dailycardinal.com.
In-state tuition for state’s illegal immigrants does not add up By Kristen Wall and Emily Monske COLLEGE REPUBLICANS
During this past fall’s elections the theme among the Democratic candidates was “change.” However, at least at the state level it has just been more of the same. Gov. Jim Doyle, in this year’s state budget, introduced legislation that would grant in-state tuition to illegal immigrants attending schools within the University of Wisconsin System. This provision is raising more red flags than usual, however, because it is the fourth straight year Doyle has done so. This stipulation has been struck from the budget the past three
years due in large part to the fact the Republicans held the majority in at least one of the two state Legislative bodies. Supporters, mostly made up of representatives and senators from the far-left wing of the Democratic Party, hope that with the new Democratic majority in both the state Assembly and Senate, it can be steamrolled through. This statute has yet to gain the support of more moderate Democrats, such as Rep. Kim Hixson, D-Whitewater, who is the chair of the committee on colleges and universities. Fortunately, there was a federal law enacted in 1996 that conflicts with this heinous provision. This
law prohibits states from providing any post-secondary education benefit based on residency to illegal immigrants unless they provide the same benefit to any U.S. resident, regardless of where they live. This means that residents of all 50 states would be granted in-state tuition, which is something our university cannot afford and should not be asked to shoulder. There is a reason that citizens of the state of Wisconsin are rewarded with lower tuition than everyone else: It is because we pay Wisconsin state taxes used to fund our universities. Not only do illegal immigrants not pay Wisconsin taxes, but they do not
pay taxes at all. Why should our state be rewarding people for illegal activities when we cannot even provide enough financial aid for those students who are legal residents of Wisconsin? That is a question that Doyle and the far-left-wingers in the state Legislature have yet to answer. Not only does Doyle want to grant in-state tuition to illegal immigrants, but he has also included in the 2009 budget a tuition increase for everyone whose parents make over $60,000 a year to cover the state deficit. This just goes to show how Doyle cares more about illegal immigrants than he does the legal residents
of this state who have the unfortunate problem of having parents who are successful. Apparently, these days, making $60,000 a year qualifies you as rich.
Why should our state be rewarding people for illegal activities when we cannot even provide enough financial aid for legal residents?
We admit that most illegal immigrants, at least in Wisconsin, are just trying to make better lives for themselves and their children. And though we are all about fairness, we only support being fair to those who abide by state and federal immigration laws. Only when these people follow the laws governing our nation and fulfill Wisconsin state residency qualifications should we be willing to grant in-state tuition to them. Why should we allow these illegal immigrants to take the place of fully qualified legal Wisconsin residents? With an already dismal economy, Wisconsin residents have had to tighten their belts in all aspects of their lives, including financing higher education, and it is likely that private scholarship foundations are experiencing the same problems. This provision, along with the increase in tuition, will only serve to hurt Wisconsin residents and force students out of an already brain-drained state. Kristen Wall and Emily Monske are the first vice chair and second vice chair of the College Republicans, respectively. Wall is a junior majoring in economics and political science, and Monske is a sophomore majoring in history and communicative disorders. Please send responses to opinion@dailycardinal.com.
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Softball
Badgers split with Sioux
Despite promise, men’s hockey squad folded late
By Joe Skurzewski THE DAILY CARDINAL
The Wisconsin softball team (0-2 Big Ten, 10-20 overall) split a pair of games with the North Dakota Fighting Sioux (3-20) in its home opener Wednesday. Game one started off as a pitching duel between Badger junior Letty Olivarez and North Dakota sophomore hurler Hannah-Rose Peters, as no runners crossed home plate through five innings. The Badgers were able to put runners on the basepaths with hits from sophomore Ashley Hanewich and senior Theresa Boruta. But Wisconsin stranded a runner in each of the third, fourth and fifth innings. The Sioux threatened to score in the top of the fourth inning when freshman Kim Bushaw recorded North Dakota’s first hit of the game. But Olivarez stopped the threat, mowing through the heart of the Sioux lineup, striking out North Dakota seniors Nicole Puerling and Kelsey Fletcher and forcing Peters into a groundout. The sixth inning proved disastrous for the Badgers, as the Sioux capitalized on Wisconsin mistakes. Errors by sophomore Livi Abney and senior Leah Vanevenhoven, as well as a botched play at second base, allowed North Dakota to move runners around and take a commanding lead. Wisconsin staged a minor rally in the seventh, plating two runs, but the Sioux held on to win 4-2. Vanevenhoven got the ball in the second half of the doubleheader, facing off with North Dakota freshman Erica Younan in the circle. Wisconsin struck first in game two when Olivarez recorded an RBI single, scoring Boruta. Wisconsin loaded the bases in the third inning, but a questionable call by head coach Chandelle Schulte led Vanevenhoven to be thrown out on a bunt with two outs, stranding all three runners. Schulte later explained that the bunt was intended to play to Vanevenhoven’s strengths and capitalize off the Sioux’s corner infielders playing deep.
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Junior pitcher Letty Olivarez struggled, giving up four runs in the first game before collecting three hits and two RBIs in the second. The Sioux took a 2-1 lead in the top of the fourth. In the bottom half of the inning, a scary moment occurred when Badger sophomore Jennifer Krueger was hit in the head with a pitch on a bunt attempt and had to leave the game. Olivarez managed to tie the game with an RBI double in the fifth. In a huddle before the bottom of the sixth, Schulte challenged her players to take control of the game, albeit a player down. The team responded, ABNEY scoring three runs with hits from Abney and seniors Valyncia Raphael and Nichole Whaley. Wisconsin survived a Sioux rally in the seventh, allowing only one run, and won 5-3.
“I thought that was one of the worst two softball games I’ve ever been a part of and that we really didn’t start playing softball until Jen went down,” Schulte said. Abney an important part of the Badgers’ rally in game two, after struggling in the opening contest. “I felt like I let my team down in the first game, so I wanted to come out the second game and at least make a contribution in any way that I could,” she said. The Badgers will head to Bloomington, Ind., this weekend for a pair of games with the Indiana Hoosiers. Indiana currently holds the worst overall record in the Big Ten. Still, Schulte remarked on the mentality the team needs to take into the weekend. “If we don’t have that attack mode, if we don’t have that ability to turn that on, we’ll be in trouble,” she said.
hey came so close and yet oh so far. When the Wisconsin men’s hockey team finished its season over the weekend, two different flavors characterized the latter part of the season. On one hand there was the razor-thin margin that kept the team from continuing its postseason, and on the other were the lost opportunities that hurt the talent-rich Badgers down the stretch. In the end, the late failures will be the take-home theme of this season. The Badgers finished the season in a three-way tie for 15th in the PairWise rankings, which attempt to imitate the formula used by the NCAA selection committee. Unlike college football and basketball, the hockey system is entirely objective, using a set of formulas to determine the tournament field. Wisconsin held the tiebreaker with Minnesota, but Ohio State held an edge of .0002 in RPI—a combination of a team’s winning percentage, opponents’ winning percentage and opponents’ opponents’ winning percentage—which left the Badgers at home. Hidden within that close finish is the fact that the Badgers sat just a few points behind Denver and North Dakota with three weeks to go and series against both teams remaining. A league title and nearsure tournament berth were within Wisconsin’s grasp, and yet they couldn’t close the deal. Instead, UW went 1-5-0, losing two games to seventh-place Minnesota State. A win or two there likely would have the Badgers playing this weekend, but they couldn’t pull out a victory, despite two third-period leads. Again the Badgers had a chance to get into the tournament by
winning the WCHA conference tournament, but again they failed, unable to score a single goal against Denver in the semifinal game. Overall the season was one of contrasts. The team was winless in its first seven games, but then rallied to vault back into contention for the conference title. Even as it ran to that position, there was a brutal home sweep at the hands of Northern Michigan, which left an uneasy pall over the strong stretch. The team featured 10 players drafted by NHL teams, yet it never came together as one might imagine all that talent could. Despite having five defenders with NHL ties and a senior goaltender in his second season starting, the Badgers had the second-worst scoring defense of the Mike Eaves era. Part of that is due to the tendency of offensive-minded defensemen to jump into the action in the attacking zone and then not get back when opponents took possession of the puck. The offense relied, as it usually does, on the dump and chase, firing pucks down into the corners and hoping to retake possession with speed and strength. Playmaking forwards, in the tradition of national champions Joe Pavelski and Robbie Earl, never quite developed. This left the offense prolific, but challenged when opponents denied rebounds and offensive production off long slap shots. It also didn’t help that the WCHA was particularly weak this season, boasting only three teams playing in the postseason. As the 16 NCAA tournament teams prepare to compete for a national title, those who follow the Badgers must be left to wonder what went wrong. How did all that talent and promise translate into an inconsistent squad that came so close despite squandering so many chances? Really, who knows? Do you have the answer? Share it with Ben at breiner@wisc.edu.